History Unit 5 Ch. 9-10

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Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy, sent gunboats down mississippi to split south.

Vicksburg

1863, turning point battle, completes anaconda plan, lincoln used as propaganda, WEST

Gettysburg

1863-General Lee lead the Confederate troops into Pennsylvania. He surprised the units in Gettysburg and the battle was the most crucial and bloodiest of the war. The victory at Gettysburg belonged to Lincoln and the Union. Turning point; last offensive attack of the South.

siege

the surrounding of a place in order to force it to surrender

Ulysses Grant

an American general, promoted half way through war

Sherman's March

William Sherman led union troops to south in total war, destroying south